Tyler, TX Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Tyler, TX - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Tyler, TX moved from $41,230 in May 2024 to $42,650 in May 2025 (+3.4%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Tyler, TX sits +0.3 pp near that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Home Health and Personal Care Aides shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Tyler, TX
Home Health and Personal Care Aides publishes $23,980 here versus $35,800 nationally (-33.0%; 5,450metro-area jobs). Next is Retail Salespersons at $28,050 locally versus $35,410 nationally (-20.8%).
- Home Health and Personal Care Aides$23,980 in Tyler, TX sits 33.0% below the national Home Health and Personal Care Aides median of $35,800 (5,450 published local jobs).
- Retail Salespersons$28,050 in Tyler, TX sits 20.8% below the national Retail Salespersons median of $35,410 (3,650 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$84,150 in Tyler, TX sits 20.4% below the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,300 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$80,340 in Tyler, TX sits 17.6% below the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,430 published local jobs).
Home Health and Personal Care Aides and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Tyler, TX; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 46340 · Tyler, TX $54K mean
MEAN-LOW · RPP-LOW · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-LOW #392/528
- RPP-LOW 92.2
- OCC-MID 339 occs
- TOP-LEAD Chief Executives · $238K
- EMP-MIX Sales Managers
- TREND-INLINE +0.3 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Southeast-Centra…
- BOOK-FULL 335 rows · May 2025
Read with Southeast-Central Idaho nonmetropolitan area ($29 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer, not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Tyler, TX
Employment scale inside Tyler, TX's top-pay list
Sales Managers and Financial Managers lead published employment inside Tyler, TX's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Sales Managers 410 jobs · $127,030
- 2. Financial Managers 340 jobs · $136,520
- 3. Software Developers 320 jobs · $123,760
- 4. Lawyers 310 jobs · $130,390
- 5. Nurse Practitioners 300 jobs · $132,490
- 6. Pharmacists 280 jobs · $136,790
- 7. Managers, All Other 260 jobs · $122,440
- 8. Physical Therapists 250 jobs · $108,380
- 9. Computer and Information Systems Managers 230 jobs · $150,510
- 10. Physicians, All Other 220 jobs · $182,690
- 11. Marketing Managers 160 jobs · $130,200
- 12. Mechanical Engineers 160 jobs · $106,240
- 13. Physician Assistants 130 jobs · $133,460
- 14. Industrial Production Managers 110 jobs · $118,530
- 15. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $125,990
- 16. Human Resources Managers 100 jobs · $113,260
- 17. Architectural and Engineering Managers 80 jobs · $168,720
- 18. Veterinarians 70 jobs · $120,850
Occupations Tracked
339
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$53,697
employment-weighted, 335 complete rows
Top Salary
$237,880
Chief Executives
Cost of Living
92.2
8% below US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chief Executives | $237,880 |
| 2 | Physicians, All Other | $182,690 |
| 3 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $168,720 |
| 4 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $150,510 |
| 5 | Pharmacists | $136,790 |
| 6 | Financial Managers | $136,520 |
| 7 | Physician Assistants | $133,460 |
| 8 | Petroleum Engineers | $132,530 |
| 9 | Nurse Practitioners | $132,490 |
| 10 | Lawyers | $130,390 |
| 11 | Marketing Managers | $130,200 |
| 12 | Optometrists | $127,300 |
| 13 | Sales Managers | $127,030 |
| 14 | Dentists, General | $125,990 |
| 15 | Software Developers | $123,760 |
| 16 | Managers, All Other | $122,440 |
| 17 | Purchasing Managers | $121,180 |
| 18 | Veterinarians | $120,850 |
| 19 | Industrial Production Managers | $118,530 |
| 20 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $117,260 |
| 21 | Electrical Engineers | $113,930 |
| 22 | Human Resources Managers | $113,260 |
| 23 | Data Scientists | $108,780 |
| 24 | Physical Therapists | $108,380 |
| 25 | Mechanical Engineers | $106,240 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Tyler, TX
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $20,880 |
| Bartenders | $21,170 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $22,370 |
| Cooks, Short Order | $22,900 |
| Amusement and Recreation Attendants | $23,870 |
| Home Health and Personal Care Aides | $23,980 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $24,700 |
| Childcare Workers | $26,050 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $26,370 |
| Bus Drivers, School | $26,780 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in TX
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside TX. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($53,697 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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How to use Tyler, TX wage figures in a real decision
- Chief Executives leads published medians in Tyler, TX at $237,880/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Chief Executives
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $53,697 adjusts to about $58,268 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 92.2. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for TX before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.